{"id":1584057,"date":"2022-08-02T08:01:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T12:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1584057"},"modified":"2022-08-02T08:01:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T12:01:57","slug":"kansas-voters-to-decide-on-constitutional-amendment-declaring-no-right-to-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kansas-voters-to-decide-on-constitutional-amendment-declaring-no-right-to-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Voters to Decide on Constitutional Amendment Declaring No Right to Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkansas-voters-to-decide-on-constitutional-amendment-declaring-no-right-to-abortion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1584057&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2022-02\/GettyImages-149354154.jpg?h=2a6147b5&#038;itok=k4VJTZFM\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Kansas voters will decide Tuesday whether to amend the state constitution so that it says there&#8217;s no right to abortions.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed amendment would also give state lawmakers the power to pass abortion-related legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The measure, <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Kansas_No_State_Constitutional_Right_to_Abortion_and_Legislative_Power_to_Regulate_Abortion_Amendment_(August_2022)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">titled<\/a> the &#8220;Kansas No State Constitutional Right to Abortion and Legislative Power to Regulate Abortion Amendment,&#8221; comes in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/u-s-supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\/article_cfff3a7c-f3c4-11ec-923c-d769c96dbaea.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruling<\/a> in Dobbs v. Jackson, which overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that abortion is a fundamental right under the state constitution, but Republican legislators voted last year to put the issue on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Organizations in the state have lined up for and against the proposed constitutional amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Kansans for Constitutional Freedom, which opposes the measure, warns it would allow lawmakers to ban abortion outright in the state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The amendment on the ballot will mandate government control of our private medical decisions and pave the way for a total ban on abortion,\u201d Ashley All, a spokesperson for the group, told The Center Square. \u201cThis amendment gives politicians the power to pass any law they want regarding abortion, including a total ban.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All added that abortion is already heavily regulated and the amendment is unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>Planned Parenthood Action is also active in advocating against the measure, saying on its website, \u201cKansas can either be a state where abortion remains safe and legal, or a state where it isn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mackenzie Haddix, spokesperson for the Value Them Both Coalition, which backs the measure, said a yes vote would \u201cprotect moms and babies from an unregulated, unlimited abortion industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kansas Catholic Conference Executive Director Chuck Weber told The Center Square that passage of the amendment is critical for Kansans who seek a civil discussion about the volatile issue of abortion policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the Kansas State Supreme Court, all laws touching on the issue of abortion are now &#8216;presumed unconstitutional&#8217; (page 72 of the Hodes ruling),\u201d Weber said.<\/p>\n<p>Weber said he believes if the measure does not pass, any pro-life laws will be challenged, and taxpayers will end up paying for elective abortions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeenage girls will be able to legally get abortions without the knowledge or consent of their parents,\u201d Weber added. \u201cAlready, because of the Kansas State Supreme Court ruling, D&#038;E abortions, also known as &#8216;live dismemberment abortions&#8217; are happening in Kansas at a rate of more than 9 per week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several other states are also set to consider ballot measures on abortion following the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling, including California, Kansas, Kentucky, Montana, and Vermont, according to Ballotpedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas voters will decide Tuesday whether to amend the state constitution so that it says there&#8217;s no right to abortions.The proposed amendment would also give state lawmakers the power to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1584180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1584057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1584057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1584180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}